Volume 18, No. 2
Summer 1985
Contents
Articles/Essays
An RLDS Reformation? Construing the Task of RLDS Theology
Paul Shupe and Larry W. Conrad
1985: Larry W. Conrad and Paul Shupe, “An RLDS Reformation? Construing the Task of RLDS Theology,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 18 No. 2 (1985): 92-113. During the last twenty-five years, Reorganized Latter Day Saints have struggled to discover what it means to be the body of Christ in the modern...
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Crying Change in a Permanent World: Contemporary Mormon Women on Motherhood
Linda P. WilcoxDialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 116–127
Women in the Mormon Church are encouraged toward traditional roles and attitudes that discourage personal, familial, and societal change. The ideal female role is that of a non-wage-earning wife and mother in a nuclear family where the husband is the provider and the woman’s energies are directed toward her family, the Church, and perhaps community service.
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